Israel war: Why are Muslim activists dying on the hill of terrorist apologia?
Zachary Faria
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Muslim activists in the United States are raising a fuss and warning that President Joe Biden is going to lose Muslim support for being too sympathetic to Jews who were slaughtered by antisemitic terrorists, and apparently, no one thinks that this would reflect poorly on Muslims.
Georgia State Sen. Nabilah Islam Parkes has bemoaned that the Muslim community feels like “there’s a level of erasure” of Muslims, “especially at the beginning of this,” and that Muslims for whom she is claiming to speak feel like Biden has let them down. “The beginning of this” refers to when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, slaughtered at least 1,400 civilians, raped women, executed babies, and took hostages. Islam Parkes says that it “feels like it’s post-9/11 with the Islamophobic rhetoric.”
REPUBLICANS OWE THE NATION A SINGLE VOTE FOR SPEAKER
Now just imagine what it feels like for the Jews who were slaughtered in their homes by gleeful Palestinian terrorists.
This is the growing trend among activists desperate to downplay antisemitism and make the massacre of more than a thousand Jews all about “Islamophobia.” Politico highlighted several of these activists and said that Biden “is facing anger from many Arab Americans, Muslims and their progressive allies over what they see as an uneven response.” Yes, the message here is that Biden should be quicker to condemn Israel for existing to make up for his condemnations of animalistic terrorists who slaughter Jews for fun.
Is no one here concerned about this reinforcing negative stereotypes about Muslims in the U.S., most of whom these activists almost certainly do not speak for? Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to kill Jews and destroy Israel. Their militants hide behind their own Palestinian civilians as human shields to use their corpses as political tools to justify their terrorism. Israel bends over backward to avoid killing civilians. It’s Hamas that deprives Palestinian civilians of resources to focus on launching missiles at Israel.
Simply put, there is no equivalence between the two.
And yet, these activists are saying that Muslim voters are going to be upset with Biden for not being more sympathetic to the terrorists who carried out this slaughter, which also killed 33 Americans. Does no one see how regressive that is? Does no one see that it is a bad idea to claim that Muslim voters base their votes on which candidate will sympathize with terrorists more than Jewish civilians who were killed in front of their families in their own homes? What kind of soulless political blackmail is this supposed to be?
“Islamophobia” is not the focal point after terrorists massacred Jewish civilians. The Palestinian civilians who are suffering from the war are suffering because Hamas uses them as props and human shields. Any insistence that this conflict is Israel’s fault or that Biden should focus less on the dead Jewish civilians and more on “Islamophobia” is terrorist apologia. So why do Democratic Muslim activists insist on tying Muslim voters to those views?